Marta Hanson
Cognoscenti contributor
Marta Hanson is a student at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government studying democracy, narrative and civic engagement. She’s currently based in her hometown of Portland, Oregon.
Recently published
I’ve Lived Through Wildfires Before, But Nothing Compares To This: A Letter From The West Coast
One hundred years ago, in the midst of another global pandemic, Marta Hanson's great-grandmother lived through a Minnesota wildfire that scorched 250,000 acres and displaced 50,000 people. Hanson wonders what...